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  • Key Iraqi said to counter U.S. claims on tubes, bomb project

    07/17/2003 4:21:26 PM PDT · by Brian S · 71 replies · 1,276+ views
    <p>A key Iraqi scientist recently told the CIA that high-strength aluminum tubes bought by Baghdad weren't meant for nuclear bomb production, as President Bush suggested in his State of the Union address, two experts on Iraq's nuclear program say.</p> <p>Mahdi Shukur Obeidi, who headed a uranium-enrichment unit vital to Iraq's pre-1991 bomb plans, "also said that since '91 they hadn't resurrected a nuclear weapon program," according to ex-Iraq inspector David Albright, an American physicist who acted as go-between for Obeidi to talk to U.S. authorities a few weeks ago.</p>
  • How conflicts between the Administration and the CIA marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.

    10/20/2003 5:34:06 AM PDT · by Gothmog · 51 replies · 4,434+ views
    The New Yorker ^ | 10/20/03 | Seymour Hersh
    Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered. The committee is concentrating on the last ten years’ worth of reports by the C.I.A. Preliminary findings, one intelligence official told me, are disquieting. “The intelligence community made all kinds of errors and handled things sloppily,” he said. The problems range from a lack of quality control to different agencies’ reporting contradictory assessments at the same time. One finding, the official went...
  • They Came Here to Die (gripping Marine battle Operation Matador)

    05/11/2005 3:28:06 PM PDT · by Choose Ye This Day · 80 replies · 2,308+ views
    Washington Post ^ | May 11, 2005 | Ellen Knickmeyer
    JARAMI, Iraq, May 10 -- Screaming "Allahu Akbar'' to the end, the foreign fighters lay on their backs in a narrow crawl space under a house and blasted their machine guns up through the concrete floor with bullets designed to penetrate tanks. They fired at U.S. Marines, driving back wave after wave as the Americans tried to retrieve a fallen comrade. Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, the foreign fighters battled on, their screaming voices gradually fading to just one. In the end, it took five Marine assaults, grenades, a tank firing bunker-busting artillery rounds, 500-pound bombs unleashed by...
  • HEROES BATTLE IN OBSCURITY (IRAQ)

    12/01/2005 2:49:35 PM PST · by neverdem · 9 replies · 482+ views
    Kansas City Star ^ | Nov. 30, 2005 | DAVID BROOKS
    Capt. Christopher Ieva comes from a military family. His grandfather won a Bronze Star in World War II and his father served during Vietnam. Throughout his boyhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., and then North Jersey, Ieva wanted to be a Marine. On May 8, Ieva found himself leading a Marine assault in western Iraq. U.S. forces were in the midst of Operation Matador, an effort to clean out the insurgent safe havens in the towns along the Iraqi-Syrian border. Ieva and his men were to help bridge the Euphrates River and attack insurgent strongholds to the north. But as they got...
  • Iraq- U.S. says captures Iraqi militant close to Zarqawi

    04/06/2006 12:52:25 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 27 replies · 822+ views
    Reuters | April 6, 2006
    BAGHDAD, April 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday that Iraqi forces had captured a former senior intelligence official under Saddam Hussein who now has close ties to the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A military statement said Muhammad al-Ubaydi, who now heads the Secret Islamic Army in northern Babel province, was captured by Iraqi forces in southern Baghdad on March 7.
  • New phase of 'Steel Curtain' continues in Ubaydi

    11/15/2005 4:48:22 PM PST · by SandRat · 6 replies · 359+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Nov 15, 2005
    AR RAMADI, Iraq (Army News Service, Nov. 15, 2005) – Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers, together with Marines in Regimental Combat Team–2, began a new phase of “Operation Steel Curtain” Nov. 14 by entering the town of Ubaydi, located on the banks of the Euphrates River about 20 kilometers from the Syrian border. Many of the terrorists who are now fighting in Ubaydi are suspected to have fled from Husaybah and Karabilah, the first two cities that were secured by Iraqi and Coalition Forces at the beginning of the operation last week, officials said. Part of Ubaydi was cleared by Iraqi...
  • Steel Curtain Troops Move Into Ubaydi

    11/14/2005 3:50:54 PM PST · by SandRat · 4 replies · 416+ views
    CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2005 – Iraqi army soldiers and U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors with Regimental Combat Team 2 began a new phase of Operation Steel Curtain today by entering the town of Ubaydi. Ubaydi, located on the banks of the Euphrates River, is only 20 km from the Syrian border, and was the site of Operation Matador in May. Insurgent fighters have been battling with Iraqi and coalition forces since the operation began at dawn. Coalition air strikes hit five targets while insurgents were engaging coalition forces with small-arms fire. Preliminary reports indicate an estimated 25...
  • Marine Reserve Unit Decimated In Iraq (prayers needed)

    05/12/2005 11:01:46 PM PDT · by flutters · 27 replies · 1,441+ views
    Washington Post ^ | May 12, 2005
    COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio Marine Reserve unit suffered heavy casualties during recent fighting in Iraq, according to the Washington Post. Every member of one of three squads that make up the 1st Platoon of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment had been killed or wounded, Marines told the newspaper. Marine Cpl. Dustin Derga, 24, of Pickerington, was one of two Marines killed and five wounded Saturday during a firefight in Ubaydi. On Wednesday, four more Marines were killed and 10 others were injured when a device exploded under their armored vehicle, according to the Post. On Thursday, the Department...
  • Anthrax dumped near Saddam palace

    03/29/2005 1:00:58 AM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 13 replies · 1,234+ views
    Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 | By Charles J. Hanley
    ASSOCIATED PRESS An Iraqi scientist has told U.S. interrogators that her team destroyed Iraq's stock of anthrax in 1991 by dumping it practically at the gates of one of Saddam's main palaces, but never told U.N. inspectors for fear of angering the dictator. Rihab Rashid Taha's decision in 2003 to remain silent stoked suspicions of those who contended Iraq still harbored biological weapons, contributing to the U.S. decision to invade Iraq two years ago this month. "Whether those involved understood the significance and disastrous consequences of their actions is unclear," the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group says of Mrs. Taha and...
  • Democrats can get you killed! Hugh Hewitt says left untrustworthy to handle national security

    07/02/2003 12:39:00 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 26 replies · 484+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, July 2, 2003 | Hugh Hewitt
    This past Sunday, James Carville mocked the discovery of buried uranium-enrichment equipment in the backyard of Shukur Ubaydi – a key leader of Iraq's drive to obtain nuclear weapons prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Carville derided the centrifuge parts as looking like "a carburetor some redneck would have in his garage." NBC's Russert did not challenge Carville on this astonishing display of partisanship dressed up as ignorance, but the statement revealed a great deal about Democratic strategy on the WMD debate that has already begun: Deny the relevance and importance of every piece of evidence, and assert that nothing...
  • HAMMUD AL-UBAYDI IN COALITION CUSTODY (2 of Hearts)

    05/07/2003 12:02:50 PM PDT · by Spruce · 4 replies · 187+ views
    Central Command ^ | 05/07/2003
    May 7, 2003 Release Number: 03-05-21 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HAMMUD AL-UBAYDI IN COALITION CUSTODY CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar – Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi, former Ba’ath Party Regional Command Chairman for the Al-Kut District, is now in Coalition custody. He is No. 32 on CENTCOM’s Iraqi Top 55 list. CENTCOM press releases can be found at www.centcom.mil.